Michael Oshindoro

Sep 24, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kim Reynolds |Julie MacArthur |William Shoki |Michael Oshindoro

“I cannot go back to where I came from. It no longer exists. It should not exist.” “Return”; “reconnection” ; “coming back” (after having left or being taken away); “home.”These words have taken on an actionable connotation in the diaspora; they can be done, achieved, and completed. “Going home,” “returning,” and “reconnecting” processes have been practiced for as long as the conditions that necessitated them have existed.

Sep 18, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Michael Oshindoro |William Shoki

In 2019, South African-based animation studio Triggerfish approached Disney Animation with an idea: an animated anthology of futuristic African stories. The idea, proposed by Kevin Kreidemann, came in the wake of Black Panther’s global black cultural statement and the renewed Afrofuturist thoughts around the world. When Disney green-lit the project, more than 70 African directors and creatives pitched stories that had to be optimistic takes of the future told as sci-fi.

Aug 20, 2024 | brittlepaper.com | Michael Oshindoro

Iwájú (re)animates a longstanding curiosity in Lagos-centric sci-fi stories—What will the Lagos of the future look like? Through its world-building strategies, Iwájú demonstrates what Senegalese academic Felwine Sarr argues in Afrotopia, “The [Lagos] of tomorrow is in gestation within the [Lagos] of today, and its signs are decipherable within the present” (Sarr 2020).